Thanks for your feedback!
I've started this page on the wiki :
http://mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/playqueue_and_library_improvements_proposals
I'll study the code and try to perform some hacks.
Gaetan
2008/5/27 Albert James Santoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi Gaetan,
>
> Replies inline below:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gaetan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:31 am
> Subject: [Mixxx-devel] Willing to contribute to mixxx project
> To: [email protected]
>
> > Hello
> >
> > I've sent this message to the forum just before discovering this mailing
> list...
> > so here is my proposal.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Having quite a strong experience in C
> > and C++ on linux, but not much with such large projects, I would like
> > to contribute to the mixxx project on a few weakness I've
> > noticed. I
> > would like to improve the playlist, Play Queue and Library, and
> > I would
> > really appreciate some advices on how to begin, coding rules, best
> > practice for patch submission, where to start hacking, etc.
> >
>
> Welcome aboard! We're always looking for more help coding, so we'd be happy
> to do everything we can to get you started. There's definitely room for
> improvement to the library interface, and I'm glad you're interested in
> working on it.
>
> > Do
> > I have to draw a sketch of my plan, describe it somewhere,
> > discuss it
> > here, rise a ticket for this in a bugzilla, etc or just start hacking
> > as soon as possible and submit the patch? How can I be sure it
> > will fit
> > with current mixxx roadmap and be integrated?
>
> Depends on what you want to do. If you're thinking about writing some big
> feature, then the steps are:
> - Describe it on mixxx-devel and ask for ideas/feedback
> - Write a specification in the wiki so that's it clear what you're going to
> do. (The more thinking you do before you code, the easier it is to code.) :)
> - Code!
>
> If you just want to do a bug fix or something small, just code it and email
> a patch to this mailing list. To ensure your work will fit in with the
> current roadmap and be integrated, just ask! (This is why writing a
> specification is good too.) Our current release status is we're trying to
> wrap up 1.6.0, and so our focus is going to be on fixing these remaining
> bugs:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/1.6/+bugs
>
> If you make bug fixes to the library (eg. the play queue sorting), we'll
> have no problem putting them in trunk. If you add features (eg. song
> ratings), then we should probably throw them in a branch until the 1.6.0
> release is done.
>
> >
> > What I wish to improve are (sorted according to my own, humble
> > needs) :
> > 1)
> > change the Play Queue window so the list is sorted according to the
> > play sequence (and not the alphabetical order of the title), and allow
> > DJ to reorganise this play queue.
>
> Yeah, something like this would make the play queue a lot better.
>
> > 2) double click on a track start
> > imediatly the playback on the first headset configured table (if no
> > headset is set, do nothing). No need to do "stop",
> > double click on a
> > track, "play". I'm lazy...
>
> Doesn't "NEXT" mode do this already? (I think I misunderstand...)
>
> > 3) Display a little tag on any already
> > played track in Playlist, Browse and Library view (to prevent choosing
> > several time the same track during one session), or a "last
> > played"date column.
> > 4) Display a column in Library and Browse with the
> > Genre ID3 tag; I'm using it to sort my collection by
> > different music
> > genre (Salsa, rock, Bachata, Soul, RnB, Rap,...)
>
> These should be do-able...
>
> > 5) I'm rating my
> > mp3s with Amarok, so I'll try to change it as well so the
> > rating value
> > will be inserted in the file itself (as an extended ID3 tag),
> > and make
> > mixxx import/sync with this tag. it would be perfect to easily display
> > best musics to the user.
>
> Mixxx doesn't have ID3/ogg writing support, so this will take some work.
>
> > 6) (don't know how to do this but this
> > would definitively rocks) Implements a Facet view for the
> > "Library"view (you know, three column
> > Genre/Artist/Album like in rythmbox)
>
> Some people have requested alternate library views. This might be a lot of
> work too, and would definitely be something worth discussing later.
>
> In the meantime, I would start on something simple like fixing the play
> queue ordering. For all the library stuff, the central source file is
> "src/track.cpp" (the "Track" class should really be called "Library", it's
> confusing). The play queue is just a playlist called m_qPlayQueue or
> something in the Track class. I forget how the play queue view works off the
> top of my head, but our library code uses QT's model/view paradigm.
>
> Also note, each song is represented internally by a "TrackInfoObject"
> (src/trackinfoobject.cpp).
>
> >
> > I
> > would really appreciate any hint on these items, where is the best
> > place in the code to perform the changes, if there is simple way of
> > doing this, ...
> >
> > or if they are bad ideas...
>
> Most of these are reasonable ideas, but I would definitely start with bug
> fixing. Trying to fix something that bugs you is a good way to learn Mixxx's
> library code. :)
>
> >
> > But first... how can I extract the latest 1.6.x SVN version so I
> > can start hacking it tonight? (I only know svn to extract latest
> > trunk version).
> > Thanks!
>
> Trunk is the latest 1.6.x SVN version. All of our main development goes on
> there and we build our releases from there. To get Mixxx from SVN, run:
> svn co https://mixxx.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mixxx/trunk/mixxx
>
> Here's some useful wiki pages that should answer some of your other
> questions:
> http://mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/coding_guidelines
> http://mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/submitting_patches
> http://mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/development_roadmap
> http://mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/compiling_on_linux
>
> Lastly, if you send us a few good patches, we have no problems with giving
> people SVN access.
>
> Feel free to ask any other questions you have about development or any of
> the library code!
>
> Thanks,
> Albert
>
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